Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Apr 2006 17:40 UTC
Vista is all the rage at the moment (and now even the Sunday Eve Column is about it). I don't think there's a single piece of beta software that has ever been discussed as much as Windows Vista. Obviously this makes sense, since Windows powers roughly 95% of the world's desktop computers; hence an update to that system will surely spark some heavy debates. Personally, I'm indifferent towards Vista. Read on for why.
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Yes, we all know about singularity; and like all R&D things, this was mearly a proof of concept; a rectum pluck along the lines of 'what would we do, if we could design something from scratch'.
Why not base a new operating system off Plan9? I mean, it corrects all the problems and limitations of UNIX; tries some new things; it would be simply a matter of Microsoft fixing up the GUI, and voila, you have the problem solved with minimum fuss.
Deploy it first as a server OS, then gradually start to sell it as a client operating system as new programmes come on board; backwards compatibility can be done via VirtualPC.